Beruwala is a city situated in Kalutara District, Beruwala is the 130 kilometers long stretch of beach. Because of the sea side there are dry climate remain most of the time with sea breeze. The name of Beruwala intended through the word in Sinhala that meant by place where the sail is sank, Arab traders came to here and, Sri Lanka’s First mosque is built in here. This city holds very huge population of Sri Lankan, many of them gem merchants, some of them who came from the generation to generation still see most of them still living closer by “China Fort”.
In Beruwala you can enjoy your leisure time in several ways like Air Taxi riding, water sports activities, and visiting to watch turtles also. When talking about water sports activities there are several centers you can join like SRP Watersports Centre, from this places you can rent out a various equipment which you supposed to use to dive or in water sports, it also you can follow courses if you are very new to windsurfing, waterskiing and surfing sports like that , to see Bentota River, you can joine arranged boat trips along the river, most hotels in here can facilitate for people who interested for that, In addition, you can visit and see Kosgoda Turtle Centre. As Buddhist land marks there are two temples that you can find first one is Gangatilaka Viharaya , which holds a Stupa with an interesting painted that related with Buddha’s Life stories. It is immediately south of the Kalu Ganga bridge on the main road. Other one is Galapota Temple,which said to date from the 12th century. you may want to cross the bridge to get to in that temple.
With past few years, Beruwala city got a good development progressively in the field of hotel and resort industry. In Bay of Beruwala can see ideal for bathing almost for the whole year. It is an ideal town in Sri Lanka’s resort destination, if you are looking for a simple tropical holiday with hot sun, nice food and accommodation.
